Sorry, but the ofo bikes are shit. Mobike just works, ofo is as likely to be broken as not. This is my personal experience living in Shanghai, and the opinion o

Sorry, but the ofo bikes are shit. Mobike just works, ofo is as likely to be broken as not. This is my personal experience living in Shanghai, and the opinion of everyone I've talked to about these bikes. If you can't rely on the bike working, the service has no value to me. What is likely to happen is as the local governments get involved to stop the proliferation of bicycles taking up limited sidewalk space, there will be increasing restrictions placed on the bike sharing model, and there will be some consolidation in the market. When the tide goes out we can see who was swimming naked. I think the mobikes are engineered just about right, and they have at least four totally different designs out, which shows they are experimenting. I usually pay 1RMB per ride, which for the middle class is as close to free as makes no difference, but probably enough to make the business sustainable at scale. Bottom line: bike sharing is here to stay, and mobike got it right.